Tag: Pacho Velez

2024 Sundance: Scott Cummings’ REALM OF SATAN & Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s Tendaberry Among NEXT Items

Long-time editor (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and director (Buffalo Juggalos - short) Scott Cummings and a talent to watch in Haley Elizabeth Anderson (Sundance...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Omniboat, Lawrence Michael Levine, Heidi Ewing & Danny Madden in the NEXT Section

The Death of Dick Long, Give Me Liberty, Selah and the Spades and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour (which is receiving its theatrical...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pacho Velez’s The Reagan Years

We're hoping that the proverbial expression that no news is good news will be the case for a docu that we were projecting for...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pacho Velez’s The Reagan Years

When the award-winning Manakamana landed on the film festival circuit (the Golden Leopard win in Locarno was the first of many worthy acknowledgments), it...

Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms

Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...

Manakamana | Blu-ray Review

Birthed by the brilliant minds at Harvard’s increasingly influential Sensory Ethnography Lab, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s Manakamana takes in the sights and sounds...

Jordan M. Smith’s Top 10 Best Docs of 2014 So Far

Thanks to the increase in access to small scale non-fiction films through the barrage of streaming services viewers now have access to - Netflix,...

Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this April: Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez’s Manakamana

Manakamana – Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez NYC Release – April 18th Distributor: The Cinema Guild Awards & Fests: Winner of a trio of Locarno Film Fest awards...

The Odd Couple; Manakamana One Sheet Draws Attention to Charm of Chair Lift Pairings

High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana. Among the treasured items presented at last year's...

Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez’s MANAKAMANA

Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez - MANAKAMANA Section: Wavelengths Dates: Friday 6th, Sunday 8th, Sunday 15th Buzz: Let’s be frank. The sheer immensity ingrained in the film’s proposition...

Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths

Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...

Popular

La cocina | Review

Soap Kitchen: Ruizpalacios Underwhelms & Over Bakes Food Drama Making...

Bonjour Tristesse | Review

Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation...

Most People Die on Sundays | Review

A Month of Sundays: Said Squeezes Magic Out of...

The Scary House | 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival Review

Watanabe Smarter Than Ghosts, but The Scary House Had...